Until a year or two ago, yes. I've been using Ubuntu on only two different laptops since 8.04 and the staggering amount of fundamental problems and regressions that occurred and continue to occur is shocking. It's gotten a whole lot better in the past year or so but before then it was Russian roulette to install a new version of Ubuntu on the same laptop hardware.
Today the bugs/regressions usually aren't of the "sound on longer works" type or "my video card worked fine in 9.04 but was mysteriously blacklisted in 9.10" type, but of the UX type. I think a lot of that is due to Gnome 3 and the CADT development model they have, and to Canonical and their clownish Unity engineering history.
Today the bugs/regressions usually aren't of the "sound on longer works" type or "my video card worked fine in 9.04 but was mysteriously blacklisted in 9.10" type, but of the UX type. I think a lot of that is due to Gnome 3 and the CADT development model they have, and to Canonical and their clownish Unity engineering history.